Packing case, box, or carton.



A. A. BROWN.

PACKING CASE, BOX, 0R CART ONI APPLICATION FILED DEC-1L IQIG.

1,281,501., Patented Oct. 15, mm

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A. A. BROWN.

fACKING CASE, BOX, OR CARTON.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 11. 1916.

1,281,501 Patented Oct. 15, 1918.

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A. A. BROWN.

PACKING CASE, BOX, 0R CARTON.

APPLICATION FILED 05c. ll. l9l6.

1,281,501., Patented 001. 15, 1918.

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ALEXANDER Arrcmson nnown, or, RUTHEBGLEN, SCOTLAND.

PACKING CASE, ox, on cannon.

Specification of Application filed December 1 Too whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER ArroHI- SON BROWN, of Luzern, BuchananDrive,

Rutherglen, Scotland, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvementsin or Relating to Packing Cases, Boxes, or Cartons, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in cases, boxes, or cartons, forthe temporary storage of articles, and more particularly to that type ofbox wherein an article, such as an electric incandescent lamp issecured, preferably with its. contact portion exposed, between lockingabutments at the top of the box and a support or seat at the bottom ofthe box. Such boxes are adapted for testing the lamp withoutnecessitating the removal of the lamp, or the undoing of the box.- Theobject of the present invention is to improve and si plify theconstruction and extend the utility of .such

boxes.

Heretofore the bottom supportsv of the known boxes have been of twodistinct types, namely, flat or V-shaped supports formed of flapsintegral with the sides of the box and adapted to act with the pip orsealed end of the lamp or globe, or cup-shaped supports adapted toresiliently engage the bulb portion or sides of the lamp withoutengaging the pip or sealed end thereof, and suchcupshaped supports havebeen heretofore formedeither as wholly separate from the box or partlyfrom tongues cut from the sides of the box and partly by a; separatelower end piece or diaphragm supported by said tongues.

According to the present invention, the

i bottom comprises a cup-shaped seat formed wholly of parts integralwith the sides of the box; this being preferably effected by bending upflaps with tongue extensions on each side of the box in such a manner asto "create a V-shap'ed projection in the internal surface of each of thesides of the box, the upper ends of the tongue extensions restingagainst the sides of the box and tapering downward toward a permanentcentral opening. The cup-shapedsupport may also be formed from tonguesout from the sides of the box; or partly from such tongues and partlyfrom flaps projecting from the ,end of the box; or by both incombination, one set overlying the other; or the cup-shaped support maybe formed by suitably curving the sides of the box to form same. Theinven- Letters Patent.

tion also consists in the provision of means for locking the forming thecup-shaped seat against movement' toward the adjacent endof the box andagainst movement toward the sides of the box. v

In order that my invention may be properly understood and readilycarried into effect, I have hereunto appended three sheets of drawings,of which Figure 1 is. a plan view of a box blank.

Fig.2 is a perspective view of a box built up from said blank with aportion of its walls broken away to show the locked internal cup-shapedseat.

Fig. 3 is an inverted plan of the bottom of the box showing thepermanent central. openin Fig. 4 is a plan view of a box blank showing amodification in design of the blank shown in Fig. 1. h

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a box built up from said blank with aportion of its walls broken away to show the internal cupshaped seatlocked only against movementj for a further alternative form of box.

Fig. 7 is a vertical section of a box built up from said blank withclosing bottom flaps. r

h Fig. 8 is a vertical section of a box built up from the blank withoutclosing bottom flaps.

Fig. 9 is a plan view of a blank showing a bottom support formed oftongues cut from the sides of the box and upwardly bent flaps or tonguesfrom the end of the box.

h Fig. 10 is a vertical section of a box formed from said blank.

' Fig. 11 is an inverted plan of the bottom of said box.

Fig. 12 is a plan view of a box blank showing the bottom closing flapand the combination of bottom and side tongues to form the cup seat, and

Fig. 13 is a part vertical section of the box flaps or upstandingtongues are determined by the horizontal lines 12 and b. The tops flapsa, being preferably cut as shown with their free edges each providedwith an arcuate notch C, are designed to lockthe lamp down by its shoulder within the upstanding group of tongues forming the resilient bottomsupport. The lower port-ion of the blank is formed with depending flapsh and 71, provided with extensions or tongues 70 and k hinged to fold'on the lines 70 and is.

These flaps with tongue extensions are of an alternating dc signpreferably as shown, the flaps it being first turned inwardly into thebox and sub sequently the flaps h the projecting portion of the tongues70 bel'ow the lines or hinges 70 taking into recesses formed .betweenthe tongues 70 and projecting portions k of the flaps h and thereby lockthe box against a rhomboidal or collapsing move ment.

box. The bottom support for thelamp is 'formed of the group of tonguesk, k,- 7c k upstanding from the bottom flaps, inter: locked asillustrated in Fig. 2, in such manner as to form a permanent centralopening Z as 'shown in Fig. 3, through which the pip of the lamp mayfreely project.

Referring to Figs. land 5, in this construction the cup-shaped seatdifi'ers from that shown in Figs. 1 to 3 in respect of the flaps notbeing locked against movement toward the sides of the box andconsequently the lamp may be withdrawn through the bottom end on theflaps being pressed back.

The flaps h and b form the inclined bottom of the box while the tonguesk and k hinged on the lines 70 72 are of different form, the flaps 79being formed with cross extensions which engage the lower edges of theflaps h at the juncture of the tongues 70 therewith.

It will be seen that when the flaps h, h 'are turned inwardly into thebox and the tongues k, k are bent backward against the sides of the boxas illustrated in Fig. 5, a rhom} boidal or collapsing movement ischecked by the upstanding edges of the cross extensions of the tongues70 j Referring to Figs. 6, and 8, the panels 6 b b 1) are arranged toincline inwardly so as to. form the tapered resilient) support.

This is effected by cutting diamond or other suit-ably shaped openings abetween each pair of sides and by folding the portions 19 and f of thesides inwardly on the lines e f and e f thereby forming a box as shownThe flaps i and 72. arealso lockedv against movement toward the sides ofthe in Fig. 7. Closing flaps Z may be provided. on the ends of thepanels. With the same form of blank a slightly different construction ofbox can be made if the lower portions of the sides b N, b and b asrepresented in Fig. 8 are superimposed on the portions e and 7 so thatthe lines 6 f form the bottom of the box, the portions e and f incliningupwardly as shown Flaps b forming extensions of panels 6 6 are used toattach the latter to panels 6 b in the usual way.

Figs. 9, 10, 11 show a box wherein the bottom tapered support isiformedby a combination of tongues 12 extending from the bottom flaps andtongues went from the sides of the panels 6 b b b. The bottom flaps aredesigned to lie in a horizontal plane with a permanent central bottomopening and are secured together by means of locking,

tongues as engaging in slots y as shown in Fig. 11. r l

Referring to Fig. '12 which shows a modified form of blank and to Fig.13 which shows a vertical section of the bottom ofthe box made from saidblank, in thisconstruqtion the end is completely closed by thefiap t, anextension 29 of which takes within the opposite wall of the box and theportion 1" of the opposite tongue 1), this portion 1" being suitablyhinged up that wall for the purpose and bent downwardly and upwardly andthe tongue it which is substituted in place of a tongue 12 bentdownwardly to complete the .cup as illustrated in Fig. 13'.

Claim In a box 'for shipping fragile. articles and especially adaptedfor storing electric incandescent lamps, which is made from a nation,abottom providing'a cup-shaped Jblank having sides and end flaps, incombiseat-integral with the sides, flaps forming said bottom and lockedagainst movement toward the sides of the box, and groups oftonguesupstanding from said flaps adapted ALEXANDER AITCHISON BROWN. Y

